Joel Adejola

I build decision infrastructure for professional sport and long-horizon human-AI knowledge work. STATSWING is the applied vertical in football; Dialectic is the broader research substrate for persistent AI collaboration, critique, provenance, memory, delegation, and evaluation.

The common thread is making claims, assumptions, evidence, and judgment chains easier to inspect before people act on them.

I worked as an investigative journalist covering sports and elections with the International Centre for Investigative Reporting in Nigeria, reported on the 2022 World Cup, and studied in four countries, including the U.S. I also spent a summer as an engineering intern at Texas Instruments, working on GaN motor-driver technology. I've been involved in student government while studying philosophy and physics at the University of Kansas.

I am a fashion model, mostly in runway and high fashion.

Currently based in Lawrence, Kansas.

Surfaces

sports decision infrastructureSTATSWINGAI-native football intelligence for recruitment, player assessment, metric audit, and the reasoning chain behind expensive sporting decisions.researchgradesmethodresearch substrateDialecticA working prototype for persistent human-AI knowledge work: provenance, critique, memory, delegation, evaluation, and operator authority.provenancecritiquememoryconsumer football surfaceSCOUTSWINGA fan-facing product surface for the World Cup ramp: player grades, tournament context, and a cleaner way into the sport.World Cupfansgradesfootball archive / registerBallerzBantzThe football writing and analytics record that made STATSWING legible, now held as archive, register, and distribution substrate.archiveanalyticsscouting

Modeling

Black knit, blue denimRunwayBlack knit, blue denimview on Instagram →Brick light portraitEditorialBrick light portraitview on Instagram →KC runwayRunwayKC runwayview on Instagram →

Recent Notes

Apr 25via XWhat gets read changes when generation is trivialBefore, it was enough to consider any piece of writing across roughly two dimensions: what it said, and who wrote it.Apr 18via XSport is where new technology shows up firstIn the past two weeks, a human broke the marathon record in London, and a humanoid broke the half-marathon record in Beijing. It is increasingly the cas...Apr 8via XWhen the moat is open-sourced before it's monetizedAndrej Karpathy shared an idea-file framework for coordinating AI agents to instantiate and self-sustain knowledge production in a file system — Wikiped...

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